Professor Santiago Alonso Palmas Pérez completed his Ph.D. studies in Science with a specialization in Educational Mathematics at the Department of Educational Mathematics at CINVESTAV at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), focused on mathematics didactics and mathematics education for young people and adults. He is a Mathematician from the Faculty of Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Master´s in Educational Research from the Department of Educational Research at CINVESTAV-IPN.

He has taught undergraduate, high school, middle school, high school, and with young people and adults with low schooling. He has coordinated literacy campaigns, including the training of literacy teachers, since 2005. Author of textbooks for secondary education, didactic designs, didactic software developments, as well as several research articles on educational mathematics.

He has collaborated in projects with INEA, INEE and recently co-authored the free textbook with SEP. Currently attached and head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Lerma Campus, he works on research on the socio-political role of mathematics education. Member of the National System of Researchers and desirable profile PRODEP.